Louise Ritter, 87, of Mexico , died at 9:50 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21, 2005, at Pin Oaks Nursing Center. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Dale Stone officiating. Visitation is from 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery . Mrs. Ritter was born on April 23, 1917, in Columbia , the daughter of Baxter and Rosa Jane ( Richardson ) Nichols. On May 31, 1936, in Rolla, she married Walter O. Ritter, who preceded her in death on June 6, 1985. Mrs. Ritter was a long-time member of the Mexico United Methodist Church . She had worked as a sales clerk at Montgomery Ward. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Lou Campbell and her husband Charles, Centralia; a granddaughter, Peggy (Margaret Louise) Love, Columbia; and three great grandchildren, Kara, Ehran and Renee Schooler, Columbia. Three brothers, Clarence Earl, Clifford Wallace and George Turner Nichols, and two sisters, Clara Pearl Wood and Edith Elizabeth Nichols, preceded her in death. Memorial gifts may be made to the AMC Cancer Control Program in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO 65265.